Public Service Announcement

Parhelion

https://ada-young.com/pastebin/0kolFoIO

Aeldra

I'll post it publically as well. As I messaged him, I did appreciate him and am sad to see him go. Generally sad when people feel  pressurized to leave, but twice so if it is people I did appreciate a lot. Hope you find happiness wherever you go. You'll be missed at least by me.

Kagato

I am sorry to hear this. I haven't had a lot to do with parhelion on Kaga, but I have interacted with some of your alts and you have been lovely to RP with. You have been a positive influence on Lusternia and will be missed. I hope that wherever you choose to "settle" next, you will enjoy yourself.

To those of you acting as he mentioned in his post, as Orael said in another thread, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. We are not in a good state at the moment - we need every player we can get to keep Lusternia alive, meanwhile even long-time players are being driven away by toxicity and petty vendettas from a section of our player base that honestly should know better.

Zoraida

Kagato said:

To those of you acting as he mentioned in his post, as Orael said in another thread, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. We are not in a good state at the moment - we need every player we can get to keep Lusternia alive, meanwhile even long-time players are being driven away by toxicity and petty vendettas from a section of our player base that honestly should know better.

I don't normally come to the forums - the only OOC interaction I have with anyone is in one or two clans. I'm completely going to agree with this.

@Parhelion I'm really sorry that you're having a rough time and I'm not gonna talk you out of doing something that appears to be the best for you. I sincerely wish you the best wherever you go. I also just wanna thank you for making my interactions with Lusternia the best experience I've had with the game in a long time. I really, really hope that things get better.

Vexacion

I'm really sad to hear you're retiring, Par. I will say that I didn't unlink your manse out of malice; I unlinked it because I unlinked everyone who allowed anyone from New Celest, Glomdoring or Hallifax in. It wasn't meant to be a bullying position but a safety for Magnagora position given what happened when Hallifax left the alliance.

I really hope you have fun wherever you go, but I wish you'd stick around. You're a good noodle who brings fun RP to things.

Kethaera

Please just take a few days off instead. Often when we're stressed or feel overly responsible for things, anything that goes wrong gets magnified and can feel like a personal attack. It's completely reasonable to want to get away from it for a while. I wouldn't want you to regret anything after getting some distance from what's happening now.

Quixote

Don't do it, bud. There are a lot of people who would be sad to see you take this course of action.

There are many who love you and the fun you bring. Please think twice!

Everiine

The butt-hurt Ascension folx are getting their wish. I hope it's worth it.

Xenthos

Everiine said:

The butt-hurt Ascension folx are getting their wish. I hope it's worth it.

Maybe you should actually read the PSA?  None of the people on his side wished for him to leave, and certainly weren't targeting and murdering him as a priority.

Edit: Statements like yours are a big part of the problem in the game, actually.  I wished him well privately and I hope he saw it.  But using his farewell thread to just feed further into game divisions is pretty un-cool.

Everiine

Uh, I did read it...

"Ever since Ascension, my time here in Lusternia has been utter shit"

"Ascension put a big target on my back that has never worn away"

"People have quit the game since Ascension, good people that I considered friends. People have come back to Lusternia and went out of their way to attack me, or generally be an ass because Zagreus was given ascendancy as well"

"People go out of their way, beyond basic conflict, and I'm tired of people taking their angst out of me."

I read that all of the fallout and bitterness around Ascension motivated other players to single him out for IC and OOC punishment, to the point that it drove him away from the game.

Xenthos

So you cherry-picked a few snippets- some of which even undermine you. For example, "People have come back to Lusternia and went out of their way to attack me, or generally be an ass because Zagreus was given ascendancy as well" - the people who came back to behave this way have generally been (editing this to be a little less fingerpointery) the ones who felt empowered by the admin decision and have behaved very over-aggressively ever since.  And you ignore all the bits about literally being attacked, targeted first, murdered beyond what is reasonable, etc. etc to drive your own preferential narrative.

Let me reiterate.  You are contributing to the problem in this game, and hijacking his thread to blame the people who are similarly feeling just like him is a pretty bad look.

Everiine

You win.

Mysrai

I don't think this is the time or place for this. I'm going to ask you guys to cool your heels and remind you that perhaps the worst place to begin flinging argumentative statements and point fingers is on a post where a prominent player is leaving. You're piling onto already sad and bitter feelings and making things worse for people are distraught or upset by what was said here.

I expect better of you.

Aeral

I already sent a message to him outside of here, but I just want to add that I am rather devastated at losing him. I've had the pleasure of knowing Parhelion for over a decade, and have many memories of events where I knew he was involved, and probably many more where I didn't know. 

I'm sorry we couldn't do better and treat you with the love and kindness you've shown so many over the years.